El Chapo Son Ovidio Guzman Lopez's Arrest Sparks Ongoing Street Warfare in Mexico's Sinaloa State; 140 People Reported Missing

Mexico's Sinaloa state is being hit with a wave of violence following the arrest of Ovidio Guzman Lopez, the son of Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera. Neighborhoods have been littered with bullet casings.

Mexico: 9th Mexican Journalist Killed This Year Found Wrapped in Black Bag on Sinaloa Road

Another Mexican journalist was killed in northern Mexico on Thursday, the ninth media worker murdered in the country this year.

Mexican Marijuana Farmers Make Switch To Heroin As Pot Prices Fall

As marijuana prices have plummeted in the last five years, in part because of decriminalization in some states of the U.S., Mexican drug farmers in the remote valleys of the northern Sierra Madre have began to harvest opium poppies instead and distribute cheap $4 heroin to many rural areas in America.